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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V4K_consolidation-of-winston-salem-historical_Winston-Salem-NC.html
First Street marks the former boundary of Salem and Winston. Salem was founded in 1766 as the central congregational town for the Moravian Church in North Carolina. In 1849, when Forsyth County was formed, the Moravian Church sold 50ΒΌ acres immed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V4J_pythian-hall-historical_Winston-Salem-NC.html
Pythian Hall was constructed at this site in 1902 in a prominent African-American community. The three-story brick building housed the Prince Hall Mason's and the Knights of Pythias on the second and third floors. These fraternal organizations hel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V4I_calvin-h-wiley-school-historical_Winston-Salem-NC.html
Calvin Henderson Wiley (1819-1887) was a lawyer, author, legislator, minister, and champion of public education. Wiley became North Carolina's first Superintendent of Common Schools in 1853 and remained in that position until 1865. In 1869, he mov…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FH8_tobacco-unionism_Winston-Salem-NC.html
Strike by leaf workers, mostly black and female, June 17, 1943, ½ mile W., led to seven years of labor & civil rights activism by Local 22.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17B5_colored-baptist-orphanage-home_Winston-Salem-NC.html
A significant feature of the Bellview neighborhood, the Colored Baptist Orphanage Home opened in 1905 and was the only African-American orphanage in North Carolina. About 1919, the organization moved from a nearby farm house to a new building on C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17B2_the-honorable-willie-jones-of-halifax_Winston-Salem-NC.html
Who led the 1788 Constitutional Convention of North Carolina to decline to ratify the Federal Constitution until his State and its people were assured that a Bill of Rights would be incorporated in the United States Constitution. Perhaps more than…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM179P_depot-street-graded-school-site_Winston-Salem-NC.html
When built in 1887, the Depot Street Graded School was the largest and most important public school for African-Americans in North Carolina. Education pioneer, Dr. Simon Green Atkins, came to Winston as principal of the school in 1890. Under Atkin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11YW_symbol-of-service_Winston-Salem-NC.html
Dedicated to all firemen of this community. The bell first tolled to summon volunteer firefighters in the Town of Salem. Since 1912 this bell had hung in the old bell tower that was located at Station No 2, 301 South Liberty Street
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11PP_the-forsyth-county-men_Winston-Salem-NC.html
1917-1918In Grateful Remembrance ofThe Forsyth County MenWho Made The Supreme SacrificeIn The World War
Clinton A. AndersonWilliam M. BazemoreJim BennettClyde BollingFrank J. BrewerIsaac L. BrownSam ChambersJames R. CookHorace B. ConnellyJames …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11JO_our-confederate-dead_Winston-Salem-NC.html
[Front]Erected by theJames B. Gordon ChapterUnited Daughters of the ConfederacyOctober 1905Winston-Salem, N.C.
[Back]"Sleeping, but glorious,Dead in Fame's portal,Dead, but victorious,Dead, but immortal!They gave us great glory,What more could …